Days of the Twinkie may be numbered

Good point . . . Twinkies have a shelf life roughly equivalent to the half-life of iron.

I bought and tried a twinkie a few weeks ago. It's the first one I've eaten in probably over 30 years. But I was disappointed because it didn't taste like I remember it. Did they change the recipe at some point in the last 30 years? Or do I just remember them as being better than they really are?

In the interests of greater profits, bakeries are always "improving" their product.

twinkies used to be good catfish bait. Now they dont even hold together on the hook.


Imagine being that guy whos in charge of "Research and development for the TWinkie Foods Company"

I had the same experience eating at IHop a few weeks ago. We had not been in one in several years. So we drove down the freeway until we found one. We found it not as pleasant, the food not as good and the service just so-so. My pancakes were not as light as I would prefer and a few bites were not really cooked.

Sometimes i find that what i loved as a child simply no longer appeals to me. There have been a few candies and candy bars which i found no longer so alluring when after many years, i ate them as an adult. In other cases, i have had an experience such as EB describes with IHOP. One problem with chain restaurants such as that is, of course, the management or the franchisee. There was a Bob Evans that i used to frequent in Ohio, and the early shift day manager was good, knew his customers and knew the menu. He rode hard on the staff to make sure they were serving a good product. The franchisee was hopeless: when she was around, all the employees were visibly unhappy, and she would ride them to make this or that, which got thrown out when she left the building (their biscuit recipe sucks to begin with, and biscuits, no matter how well or poorly made, don't make it on a steam table). When the evening manager and crew came in at 3:00 p.m., the whole shootin' match went to hell. I suspect that after 3:00 p.m., the most of their business was from people pulling off the interstate to drive up there.

In the morning, i would join a line of people waiting for the place to open (i stopped in for breakfast before going to the shop most days). That was when the food was best there.

mmmm, Twinkie Smoothies

My nephew uses twinkies as hot dog buns. Split twinkie, insert hot dog, add mustard, eat.

I can't even imagine...

You've probably just developed better taste! I did that with a DingDong a few years ago - it was just gross.

Now I read they are about to introduce Crackerjack with caffeine.

You're joking, right?

It was on the Google news feed a few minutes back.

gonna make it hard to sit quietly through 9 innings of baseball

That's what the pill and warm beer are supposed to achieve.

How many times have Hostess Brands been in and out of bankruptcy in the last 20 years? I can think of at least two times from the top of my head. Poor management, that's all.
And apparently, union goons in this case who don't think ahead believe that no job is better than a job. I guess the bakers just want more dough.

Nov 16 (Reuters) - Hostess Brands Inc, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said it will ask a bankruptcy judge for permission to liquidate after failing to obtain wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its bakery workers.

Im gonna start a WINKIE bakery, wherein the TWINKIE connoisseur may acquire a "New generation" cake, the WINKIE. It will have all the flavor and non-oxidizing attritbutes of the TWinkie but without all the other baggage.

LINE UP BOYS.

Actually they don't want less dough. The company was requiring an 8% pay cut, the equivalent of losing a month's pay.